Saddam Hussein

By now, of course, the key details of former national security adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington" have already made it to public view. Among them: She clashed over policy with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi had an unnerving fixation on his "African princess." She regretted the timing of a vacation just as Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on New Orleans. But there's a lot more to Rice's memoir. In fact, with more than 700 pages of reminiscences, there's an awful lot more than those headline moments, making...

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